Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths

At the Pendleton, 77 Shadow Street, every 38 years a terror descends. 1897: a family abducted, never to be found. 1935: a household slaughtered in their beds. 1973: terrified workmen see a glimpse of hell. 2011: ? This is not a ghost story. It is something scarier by far